The Anxiety Project Podcast

TAPP #66: Anxiety in the Workplace ft. Dr. Scott

On episode #66 of The Anxiety Project Podcast, I talk with Dr. Jennifer Cooper Scott about anxiety in the workplace. As a special education teacher, she has experienced anxiety inside the classroom as well as outside, and she shares her experiences dealing with this life challenge. Dr. Scott talks about her book, Teaching with Anxiety, and how anxiety has affected many teachers in the educational field. 
You may contact Dr. Scott here at Jennifer.cooper@alumni.twu.edu
 
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TAPP #65: The Secret to Anxiety Recovery

On episode #65 of The Anxiety Project Podcast, I go over a very powerful tool that is necessary for desensitization. Anxiety sufferers continuously avoid situations that make them feel uneasy. The fear of uncertainty can keep an anxiety sufferer trapped in their safe zone. Then they put bandaids over their anxiety such as: medications, alcohol, junk foods, and reassurance. While they avoid those uncomfortable situations, the dragon grows, and by the time they attempt to confront that chaos, the fear is substantially more intense.  
 
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TAPP #64: Feeling Alone with Anxiety

On episode #64 of The Anxiety Project Podcast, I go over 5 ways to overcome that feeling of being alone with anxiety. When I went through my anxiety disorder in the past, I felt alone and helpless. I felt like whatever illness I had was uniquely my own and no one else's. My parents would always tell me to relax or go have a beer and calm down. They would speak to me as if they knew how I was feeling, but to me, I felt like they didn't understand what was going on within me. The goal of this podcast is to provide you with the tools that will help you widen your narrow perspective over your circumstances and help you properly connect with those around you. 
 
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TAPP #63: Leaving Your Safe Zone

On episode #63, I talk bout the fears I had leaving my safe zone and what I did to overcome that challenge. My safe zone became my home while I was suffering from agoraphobia. To overcome my fear of having a health crisis in the outside world and having no one around (family or paramedics) to help me, I had to first start small. Small walks led to longer walks which then led to hours sitting at the coffee shop. The outside world became tolerable the more time I spent in it away from my safe zone. The idea here is to work with your emotional brain and to learn to associate walks away from your comfort zone as safe rather than fearful. You will then become braver and find that the outside world is not as scary as you thought it was.  
 
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TAPP #62: A Health Anxiety Sufferer’s Day

On episode #62, I go over a typical day, from morning until night, of what it is like to suffer with health anxiety. The morning always hit me the hardest. After I woke up, I would immediately check in on myself and sensations. Then I would ruminate over how awful my day is going to be and make excuses on why I should't leave the house. During the day, I would keep my head down and avoid conversations with others. It was too challenging to engage in meaningful conversations because my internal world kept demanding my attention (the built in alarm was continuously sounding). Then once I got home I would distract my sensations and feelings with band-aids such as the TV. The goal of this podcast is to help you relate to my story and to provide your friends and family with the knowledge of what suffering with health anxiety is really like. 
 
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TAPP #61: Put Health Anxiety Behind You

In this podcast episode, I talk about a powerful technique that will help you disassociate yourself from your current anxious identity. I go over my past and how I dealt with anxiety and how I practised anxiety for most of my life. I had a very narrow perspective over the world and the only way I realized that was to experience a severe anxiety disorder. To help me move toward the person I want to be, confident, mindful, and brave, I used techniques to help me move farther and father away from that anxious guy. I talk about the "I used to be" technique to help me do that. This technique, practised over a long period of time, shifts how you view your identity and helps kick the legs out of the table that is holding up your poor beliefs. 
 
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TAPP #60: Sensitive to the Word Cancer

On episode #60 of The Anxiety Project Podcast, I talk about why anxiety sufferers are so sensitive to the word cancer. We receive 2 million bits of information from our external world every second. A health anxiety sufferer can distort, delete, and generalize this information to suit their anxious identity. They may perceive and blow up a natural bodily sensation as being life threatening, or unconsciously ignore information that doesn't suite their current values or beliefs. When a health anxiety hears someone mention a life threatening disease, they become alert and concerned because they believe to be unhealthy themselves. I also talk about how health anxiety sufferers can lesson their emotional reaction to the word cancer and live a more stress free lifestyle. 
 
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TAPP #59: Why Journaling Reduces Anxiety

On episode #59 of The Anxiety Project Podcast, I talk about journaling and how much it impacted my anxiety recovery and my life. The old me was weak minded, and could never commit to something that required hard work and discipline. That resistance did show up when I began to journal, but i felt and witnessed the amazing benefits unfold. Journaling allowed me to be open about the catastrophic thoughts I had daily, and more importantly, I became honest towards myself. Anxiety sufferers tend to hide from and avoid the harsh truth. Writing your true thoughts down allows you to be more honest with yourself and your situation. In this podcast I go over how to structure your journal and why you need to start journaling today. This powerful exercise will lesson your anxiety and add more order to the chaos you are now experiencing in your life. 
 
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